VMware Virtual View

If you are a VMware Admin, or a Hyper-Visor admin from a non-specific point of view, Xiotech’s “Virtual View” is the final piece to the very large server virtualization puzzle you’ve been working on. In my role, I talk to a lot of Server Virtualization Admin’s and their biggest heartburn is adding capacity, or a LUN into an existing server cluster. With Xiotech’s Virtual View it’s as easy as 1, 2, 3. Virtual View utilizes CorteX (RESTful API) to communicate, in the case of VMware, to the Virtual Center appliance to provision the storage to the various servers in the cluster. From a high level, here is how you would do it today.

I like to refer to the picture below as the “Rinse and Repeat” part of the process. Particularly the part in the middle that describes the process of going to each node of the server cluster to do various admin tasks.

VMware Rinse and Repeat process

With Virtual View the steps would look more like the following. Notice its “wizard” driven with a lot of the steps processed for you. But it also gives you an incredible amount of “knob turning” if you want as well.

Virtual View Wizard Steps

And for those that need to see it to believe it, below is a quick YouTube video Demonstration.

If you run a VMware Specific Cluster (For H.A purposes maybe) of 3 servers or more, then you should be most interested in Virtual View !!!

I’ll be adding some future Virtual View specific blog posts over the next few weeks so make sure you subscribe to my blog on the right hand side of this window. !!

If you have any questions, feel free to leave them in the comments section below.